Description

Circa 1840. 2-storey and basement, 3-bay asymmetrical multi-gabled cottage-style villa on sloping site with deep bracketed eaves, bargeboarding, and gothic porch. Snecked rubble with ashlar quoins and window mouldings. Advanced central gable to S; broader gable to left; both with single windows to each floor. Decorative gothic porch in re-entrant angle to right; 4 latticed gothic lights to return; decorative scroll detail to tympanum. Timber panelled door in stop-chamfered droved ashlar surround. Single window above porch. 3-storey, 3-bay to rear (N) with timber panelled door to centre; later projecting extension above; regular fenestration elsewhere.

Predominantly 6- and 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Tall coped stack breaking eaves to W; rendered stack to E. Red clay cans. Graded grey slates; fish-scale slates to porch.

INTERIOR: staircase with timber barley-twist balusters.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: low ashlar coped boundary wall; wrought-iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads; 2-leaf gate in same style.

Statement of Interest

Formerly Grass Valley Cottage. A very attractive early Victorian villa in the picturesque style made popular by J C Loudon in the 1830s, in his publications such as "The Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture".

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632396

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)